Intro

Amy Pirkle
Ania Gilmore/Annie Zeybekoglu
Anne Twigg
Barbara Milman
Beata Wehr
Bryan Kring
C & C Press
Dea Fischer
Denise Stephenson
Elizabeth Holster
Elizabeth Sanford
Elizabeth Sheehan
Ellen Knudson
Emily Chaplain
Erin Paulson
Felicia Rice
Gail Smuda
Geirmundur Klein
Jamie Weaver
Jeff Nilan
Jessica Spring
Jody Arthur
Joshua Orr
Julie Russell-Steuart
Karen Hardy
Kimberly Maher
Lauren Rose Kinney
Linda Everson
Linda Morrow
Linda Piacentini-Yaple
Louisa Boyd
Louise Levergneux
Melissa Rick
Merike van Zanten
Michelle Ray
Ruth McCann
Sammy Seung-min Lee
Sarah Bryant
Servane Briand
Shana Agid
Sun Young Kang
Suzanne Sawyer
Tore Terrasi

Artist Biographies

 

Ellen Knudson

Gainesville, Florida, USA

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Subject/Verb/Object

Murillo paper and Iris book cloth, metal grommets, metal brads, linen thread

13 x 13 x ¼

© 2012

$325

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The concept behind the book stems from the frustration and anger I feel towards art criticism and other academic writing. Academic language seems intended to control its audience, exclude “outsiders”, and is not meant to clarify the subject for a reader. It takes the beauty and passion out of language and, in turn, out of people. Subject/Verb/Object pokes at this idea by doing something similar: it uses simplistic language and structure to force the reader to organize their desires.

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